RABBINIC BANS AGAINST INTERPRETING DANIEL 7 AS TEACHING ‘TWO POWERS’ DOCTRINE

Left column is from Mekhilta of R. Simeon b. Yohai, right column is from Mekhilta debe R. Ishmael.

[Alan F. Segal, Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism (N/p.: Brill, 1977), 33]

Hellboy’s Closing Scene & Christ’s Defeat of Death

“I’ll cross over, and then you’ll be sorry” – basically a parallel to 1 Cor 2:8, Christ descending into Hades, the Harrowing of Hell, Christus Victor, ‘Jesus smacking Death & Hades around and taking their keys & lunch money’, etc 😉

Memes Where Calvinism Totally Inverts Plain Bible Passages

Mainly due to ‘Regeneration Precedes Faith’.

See also related: JOEL WEBBON STUMPED ON COLOSSIANS 2:12 BY LEIGHTON FLOWERS and WWUTT’s Gabriel Hughes Stumped on Get Life to Get Christ To Get Life.

A very small subset of my 700+ memes at My Soteriological (and Other) Memes.

WWUTT’s Gabriel Hughes Stumped on Get Life to Get Christ To Get Life

When Leighton Flowers asks a simple question about the Calvinist Ordo Salutis of ‘Regeneration precedes faith’ you see how the Reformed position immediately ties itself into knots trying to reconcile its philosophical presuppositions! You can almost hear Gabriel Hughes’ brain-gears screeching & scraping on the grit of illogic:

“I mean it’s it’s difficult for us to say really that all of those things happen in a particular sequence, uh, it’s really quite mysterious to us when it comes down to it”

“Well it’s a good argument, uh, but the, the, uh, regenerating work that is done by God in a person’s heart is not the everlasting life, the everlasting life that we have in Christ is by faith”

“Yeah again it’s the the order of events is difficult for us to fathom or to understand”

“I mean it might be crude for me to say that you are given life before you have life uh that’s, that’s, uh, complex… It’s complicated, most certainly”

See also similar: JOEL WEBBON STUMPED ON COLOSSIANS 2:12 BY LEIGHTON FLOWERS